Paper

Research on Third-party Reverse Logistics Provider Selection Based on Fuzzy Clustering in Perspective of Low-carbon Economy


Authors:
Jingmin Wang; Yiping Zhu
Abstract
Due to the increasing need for the return of dissatisfied products or used products to the producer, third party reverse logistics providers (3PRLP) businesses developed at a high rate in the past few years. A good 3PRLP plays a very important role in enterprise development, how enterprise selects the third party reverse logistics providers and entrusts his reverse logistics to them becomes an important decision-making task. This paper first describes the third-party reverse logistics (3PRL) operations, combining status of domestic 3PRL and environmental requirements of low-carbon economy, designs the evaluation index system of 3PRLP, at last establishes a model to solve the problem of 3PRLP selection using fuzzy clustering analysis method, which has provided enterprises a basis for choosing rational 3PRLP according to their actual situations.
Keywords
ReverseLogistics; 3PRLP ;Low-carboneconomy; Fuzzy Cluster Analysis;Provider Selection
StartPage
63
EndPage
66
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